Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ptarmigan; any bird of the genus Lagopus, nearly all of which turn white in winter. Also
snow-partridge . See cuts undergrouse and ptarmigan.
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Up above the timber line were snow-grouse and huge, hoary-white woodchucks, but no trace of the game we were after; for, rather to our surprise, the few goat signs that we saw were in the timber.
The Big-Horn Sheep 1896
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